US EditionCarney says Canada upholding values but drops talk of 'feminist foreign policy'
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will continue promoting LGBTQ+ rights and combating gender-based violence while shifting focus from feminist foreign policy to economic and multilateral engagement.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a Johannesburg press conference on Sunday that Canada no longer has a feminist foreign policy.
- Under the Trudeau government, Canada announced a feminist foreign policy in 2017 and promised a defining document, but no full policy was published, while Carney has downplayed feminism and not named Jacqueline O'Neill's successor this year.
- At the summit, Prime Minister Carney highlighted the South African chair securing language on gender-based violence in the G20 joint declaration, which was supported by every attending leader.
- Carney argued that Canada’s relations with the European Union are "unmatched" due to shared values, even as President Donald Trump boycotted the summit and his administration objected to the G20 joint declaration.
- Carney announced talks with South Africa on a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, completed a nuclear cooperation agreement, and said Canada will receive a South African trade mission next year, while acknowledging Africa is a lower priority.
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Gould: Carney’s comments mark departure from ‘feminist’ foreign policy comment
OTTAWA - House of Commons finance committee chair Karina Gould says Prime Minster Mark Carney's claim that Canada's foreign policy is not feminist "certainly" marks a departure from the previous government.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will no longer speak of a "feminist foreign policy" with his government. He made this announcement during a press conference at the G20 summit in South Africa. Carney is distancing himself from a term used for years by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, but what exactly did that feminist foreign policy entail? And why is Carney abandoning it now?
Carney Says Canada No Longer Has a ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he wouldn’t label his government’s approach to international relations as a “feminist foreign policy,” a term embraced by the former Trudeau government. “We have that aspect to our foreign policy, but I wouldn’t describe our foreign policy as feminist foreign policy,” Carney told reporters at a Nov. 23 press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he attended the 2025 G20 leaders’ summit. Carney’s comments…
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